NLJ this week: Populist politics on crime: act tough, look tough

29 April 2022

Issue: 7976 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Profession

Politicians love to look tough on crime and penal policy, but it’s a lamentable tradition, NLJ columnist Jon Robins writes this week

Robins highlights the latest example: Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s announcement that he plans to ‘take back control’ of the Parole Board. It seems ‘unimaginable’ now, Robins writes, but there was a time when law and order was seen as ‘beyond the grubby world of politics’.

Sadly, Robins notes, the current administration in charge have all ‘read from the populist playbook and take the politicising of “law and order” to all-time lows’.

Issue: 7976 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal , Profession

Populist policies on prison

NLJ this week: Populist politics on crime: act tough, look tough

Politicians love to look tough on crime and penal policy, but it’s a lamentable tradition, NLJ columnist Jon Robins writes this week

Sadly, Robins notes, the current administration in charge have all ‘read from the populist playbook and take the politicising of “law and order” to all-time lows’.

Issue: 7976 / Categories: , Legal News , Criminal , Profession

Populist policies on prison

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NLJ this week: Populist politics on crime: act tough, look tough

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Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

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